Sex and the City: Actually Not Real Life, Except When It Is

In this week’s New York magazine feature story Sarah Jessica Parker strolls around Greenwich Village with writer Emily Nussbaum bemoaning the ever disappearing New York of the seventies.

Her take on the show that introduced the world to questionable fashion choices, unbearable lines at Magnolia, as well as (as Nussbaum puts it) “the way [women’s] bodies function as currency…the marriage hunt as negotiation disguised as romance. The value of a single woman.”

It’s like a Jeff Koons piece…He takes a diamond ring, and he just blows it up.

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